Star profile
HIP 74582
Variable starWhat is HIP 74582
In the Southern Triangle, 1,173 light years away, this white A-type star with a variable nature shines at magnitude 5.75. Its light set out around the year 853, when the Vikings were besieging Paris for the first time under Charles the Bald. Variable and white, it fits in the family of stars whose brilliance oscillates from internal causes, a photometric breathing that astronomers track with light curves carefully built over months.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 74582 lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 54° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 20° N.
It ranks no. 15 in brightness among the 21 stars of Triangulum Australe in our catalogue. To find it, start from Atria, the brightest: it lies about 8° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,200 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 74582
- Constellation
- Triangulum Australe
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.75
- Distance
- 1173.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 228.580° · Dec -70.079°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74582 · HD 134453
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Other stars in Triangulum Australe
Triangulum Australe has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AtriaAlpha Trianguli Australis1.91
- Beta Trianguli Australis2.83
- Gamma Trianguli Australis2.87
- HIP 773905.54
- HIP 756655.71
- HIP 782795.74
- HIP 741845.76
- HIP 780455.76